Table 2. Characteristics of Hospitalizations for AP by CD Status.
| Patient characteristics | CD group |
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|---|---|---|---|
| With CD | Without CD | P-value | |
| Patients, n (%) | 1,930 (0.75) | 257,035 (99.3) | |
| Gender | 0.015 | ||
| Male | 940 (48.7) | 141,626 (55.1) | |
| Female | 990 (51.3) | 115,409 (44.9) | |
| Race | < 0.001 | ||
| White | 1,573 (81.5) | 163,731 (63.7) | |
| Black | 214 (11.1) | 44,724 (17.4) | |
| Hispanic | 102 (5.2) | 33,672 (13.1) | |
| Charlson Comorbidity Index score, n (%) | 0.024 | ||
| 0 | 840 (43.5) | 94,846 (36.9) | |
| 1 | 606 (31.4) | 81,737 (31.8) | |
| 2 | 249 (12.9) | 38,041 (14.8) | |
| ≥ 3 | 235 (12.2) | 42,668 (16.6) | |
| Insured type, n (%) | 0.001 | ||
| Medicaid | 666 (34.5) | 73,255 (28.5) | |
| Medicare | 407 (21.1) | 69,656 (27.1) | |
| Private | 730 (37.8) | 86,364 (33.6) | |
| Location/teaching status of hospital | 0.934 | ||
| Rural | 214 (11.1) | 29,816 (11.6) | |
| Urban non-teaching | 396 (20.5) | 53,977 (21.0) | |
| Urban teaching | 1,320 (68.4) | 173,499 (67.5) | |
| Relative bed size category of hospital | 0.355 | ||
| Small | 481 (24.9) | 70,428 (27.4) | |
| Medium | 531 (27.5) | 74,283 (28.9) | |
| Large | 921 (47.7) | 112,581 (43.8) | |
| Etiologies of AP | |||
| Alcoholic AP | 347 (18.0) | 79,166 (30.8) | < 0.01 |
| Biliary AP | 214 (11.1) | 41,897 (16.3) | < 0.01 |
| Drug-induced AP | 85 (4.4) | 3,598 (1.4) | < 0.01 |
AP: acute pancreatitis; CD: Crohn’s disease.